Swimming Lessons

 For the first time, Peyton took swimming lessons!  We signed up through the City of Chandler and went to one of the aquatic centers each morning (M-Th) for two weeks.  The lessons were 25 minutes long.  I was not expecting much from these lessons, but it is amazing what the teacher was able to cram into those 25 minutes.  Peyton gained lots of confidence in the water and is now able to go underwater!  I am seriously so proud of her!  She loves doing her "floats" especially in the bathtub and begs to go diving for rings if we are at the pool.

California Adventure!

I don't have time to recount all the details of our brief trip to California, but here are a few pictures!  We had a great time... Peyton saw and touched the ocean for the first time, we went to Sea World.... fabulous!

Summer Vacation is Over?

Summer vacation was suppose to be a lovely 6 weeks for me to keep up on the blog, take lots of fun and creative pictures, and really spend some quality time with Peyton.  Ok, so I spent a TON of time with Peyton (some days I would argue that I spent too much time with her, but most days I could have spent more hours with her!).... and I took some pictures... but this whole blog thing?  Um yeah, that didn't happen.  Nor did the creative and fun pictures... such is life.

Peyton and I are back to school full-time and we are struggling to get into the routine.  Our mornings over the summer were lazy- laying in bed watching cartoons, snuggling, reading stories... not so anymore!  I get up first (I consider it the butt crack of dawn, but since Josh has left the house and is at work by the time I wake up, I won't make that remark!).  I try to get myself ready as much as possible before waking Peyton up at 6:30.  She sits in our bed and watches cartoons for a few minutes while I finish my make-up or hair... or get dressed... whatever I haven't accomplished yet.  By about 6:45 I sit down to get Peyton dressed and comb out her hair.  Usually if she is a little distracted I can throw a ponytail into her hair but other times she fights me so she ends up at school with her hair in her eyes looking a bit disheveled.  And I'm only slightly embarrassed. (I just remember the days when she was teeny tiny when she would throw fits when I tried to take her jammies off... so off to school she went in jammies... but that is perfectly acceptable for an infant!)
Typically we are in the car by 7:05 and on the road.  I get Peyton to school around 7:30-7:35, jump back in the car and get myself to school (just a few miles down the road) by 7:50.  There are good days for drop-off and some not so pleasant ones.  Thankfully she has some great teachers this year and LOTS of friends in her class (mainly Abby, Ella, & Evan).  And... her classroom has this fancy computer that she LOVES... seriously, I hope her teachers kick her off of it because I know she'd spend all day on it if they let her.  During the first week or so of school Peyton was teaching the other kids (and teachers) how to use the computer.  Ha!  She takes after her Daddy, for sure!